FEBRUARY 2010 ı goodreading 49
coffee table
Symbols of Australia: Uncovering
the stories behind the myths
edited by Melissa Harper and
Richard White is published by
UNSW Press, rrp $39.95.
Bushmen with their swags and billies.
On the Wallaby Track, about 1880–1901.
Tyrrell collection, National Library of Australia
‘She’s a beauty,’ Prime Minister Ben
Chifley famously declared in 1948, as the
first Holden rolled off the production line.
Holden prototype no. 1, 1946.
National Museum of Australia
Spirit of the Digger, cast of
the Braidwood War Memorial,
New South Wales.
National Museum of Australia
Lost: A Sketch
from Riverina by
Julian R Ashton,
published in the
Illustrated Australian
News, 3 July 1880.
State Library of Victoria
Lead kangaroo
figure made for
Cadbury’s Cocoa
promotion, England,
1930s.
National Museum of
Australia